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NY AG Defies Trump EO, Says Transgender Surgeries Mutilating Children Can Continue

Letitia James warned medical providers that refusing services to "protected status" individuals could violate state discrimination laws.

NY AG Defies Trump EO, Says Transgender Surgeries Mutilating Children Can Continue Image Credit: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday warned medical providers that refusing “gender-affirming care” surgeries for transgender minors in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order could violate state law.

In a letter from the attorney general’s office to medical providers, hospitals, non-profits, and other organizations, James warned refusing to offering services to “protected status” individuals violate state discrimination laws.

“Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York State laws,” James’ letter, dated Monday, Feb. 3, states.

“Electing to refuse services to a class of individuals based on their protected status, such as withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination under New York law,” she added.

James’ message comes as Trump last week signed an executive order seeking to “protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation.”

“Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding,” Trump’s order stated. “Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.”

It continued: “Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”

On Monday, the Trump administration took a victory lap following a report a New York hospital stopped conducting the surgeries.

Last week, President Donald J. Trump took executive action to protect American children from irreversible chemical and surgical mutilation.

It’s already having its intended effect — preventing children from being maimed and sterilized by adults perpetuating a radical, false claim that they can somehow change a child’s sex. Hospitals around the country are taking action to downsize or eliminate their so-called “gender-affirming care” programs:

NEW YORK: NYU Langone Health has started canceling appointments for so-called “gender-affirming care” involving minors. They canceled appointments for “two 12-year-olds who had been scheduled to receive implants that dispense puberty-blocking medication.”

It remains to be seen how the Trump administration responds to the New York attorney general’s blatant defiance and whether any doctors attempt to perform transgender surgeries in violation of Trump’s order.

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